In case you weren't one of the eight people who saw A Bee Movie, this guy is from A Bee Movie. Which was aptly named. Unless maybe they'd gone with C or D movie, of course. [zing!] This cake, however, is A+ all the way.

Well, they did make a Phantom of the Opera movie. Which was pretty good, as I recall. By which I mean I recall lots and lots of cleavage. Mrow. Sadly, this cake is a bit of a bust in the cleavage department, though. [bah-dum-CHA]

I grew up in the era when HBO only had the rights to about a dozen movies, one of which was the Harry Hamlin Clash of the Titans. I watched it until I knew every line. Took me 3 tries to watch the new one--I kept falling asleep! Yeah, the Medusa's gorgeous and I'm a total snake nut, but even she couldn't save the movie for me. In the end, having waded through that pile of , I can at least be glad they finally convinced me Liam Neeson & Ralph Fiennes (spelling?) are NOT the same person.

John, you and Jen must "Step in Time" to your Netflix queue and rent "Mary Poppins", just so you can appreciate how brilliant the cake is. The top flowered tier had me perplexed until I realized it is Mary Poppins' magic bag. The penguins are waiters from inside Bert's chalk drawing. You should snuggle down with a bag of popcorn (which now costs much more than "tuppence a bag"), sprinkle on a "Spoonful of Sugar" and enjoy the movie. Chim Chim Cher-ee!

Great cakes! So for the Mary Poppins cake, the top is her magical handbag (the one she can pull anything out of--I love that part) and her umbrella with the talking parrot head for the handle is sticking out of it. And the penguins are one of my favorites! The dancing cartoon penguins when the gang jumps into the chalk drawing and goes into "cartoon land" as I call it ;) And well the bottom, you can see Mary's silhouette as she's gliding over the smoke stacks of London :) Oh OH! And I just noticed that the stripe pattern behind the penguins is based on the striped suit that Dick Van Dyke (ie Bert) wears in "cartoon land"! Yeah, I love me some Mary Poppins too :)

The cakes are great, but as a theatre nerd, I'm very bothered by the Phantom of the Opera cake. The mask is totally wrong! The Phantom wears a mask that only covers the left half of his face- not that weird looking whole-face mask that's on the top of that one. The cake is gorgeous, though!

I love Mary Poppins and have seen it too many times to count. Loved Linda's comment more than the cake though, because in the mirror you can see the talking parrot umbrella handle is missing his eye on the other side. Other than that its fabulous!

Lol Silentmenagerie...I can so relate to your post. I've never had HBO, but I loved the original Clash of the Titans. I applaud your endurance @ being able to make it through the remake. I fell asleep 3 times while watching it with the BF. Sooo glad I didn't waste $$$ on seeing it in the theaters!

Sweet! Love all these. I was baffled for a minute, too, with the bird-head umbrella. Good stuff.There had to be snakes on the Indiana Jones cake. Love it.Bubo! I love him so much and that's just a perfect rendition of the little chirpy guy. The Harryhausen stop=motion animation in the first was just awesome. The re-make was good, but not that memorable.

My brother and I went to see Clash of the TItans (his wife refused to join us) as we had grown up loving the original. We had very low expectations going in and left saying "Wow, that wasn't actually as bad as we predicted. It was still pretty bad though."

If you can deal with the poor acting, and ignore that the women are a commodity for heroes, and a bit of racial typecasting (more or less what you have to ignore for most American action films), there is a lot of eye-candy and nifty action scenes.

On the other hand, the Wizard of Oz cupcakes are charmingly well done.

Just so you know, it's never, never wrong to get a Wicked song stuck in your head. In fact, if I ever fall out of a plane or off of a tall building and am wooshing towards death, my final thoughts will be the lyrics to "Defying Gravity."

So, being a big fan of all things Oz, I had a total squee moment seeing that Wizard of Oz cake! Which repeated again once I saw the Alice in Wonderland cake! Two of my favorite stories in the world in cake form. Love it!! I may have to have the Oz cake for my wedding cake...

I really hope that I'll be able to see Wicked while it's here in Tucson. I think Wicked allusion is okay in Wizard of Oz comment.

The cakes are just gorgeous. I'll have to think of other Indiana Jones scenes like pulling a heart out of someone's chest ... nice cake. I'd love to see what someone would do with a Jack Sparrow cake. The only problem would be lots of dark icing. Edible dreadlocks. Hm ...

Ahh! I love this post!! The owl and the Phantom cakes were definitely the best!! (I don't remember any creepy head things in Mary Poppins, but then I haven't seen it for about three years or so...who knows. :D)

Thanks keeping up on Cake Wreaks for us fans, you being on holidays and all. It is bad enough going through withdrawal on the Saturdays that you don,t post. Shiver... Received a Cake Wreaks book for xmass. Lucky me.

the wizard of oz cake is adorable. very cute, and a good use of cupcakes. i know they are not a favorite on this blog! unless, of course, done right. (and since they were featured on a sunday, i guess that's a good sign.)

Aww I love that owl from the original Clash of the Titans. Reminds me I need to watch the copy my hubby bought me for our anniversary. I love all of these but will happily take the owl off their hands lol.

I definitely used to work with the girl that made the Phantom cake! Ashlee does fabulous work! she made a harry potter birthday cake for me along with another girl at the bakery and my mom's sewing basket cake! both were tooo cute and sweet..just like her!

I absolutely LOVE Bubo. I think that's my favorite cake I've seen. :D I cannot even begin to tell you how much I love the original Clash of the Titans or how many times I've seen it. Thanks for sharing!

You should have had this post last Sunday, before we rented the Clash Of the Titans for my birthday, last Tuesday! We wasted $2 on it! It was OK but not something I ever want to see again. Now, Mary Poppins I could watch every day!

I have to say I had the GLORIOUS pleasure of eating some of that Pollen Jock (Bee Movie) cake - Amanda from Bluebird makes cakes that taste even BETTER then they look (hey I have had the joy of eating 3 different versions plus some cupcakes in the past year!). The woman is an absolute star!

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